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June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson RIP! huge fans here at BlRR

Greetings all! I hope this finds all of you doing super duper fly and all is well here at BlRR Centraal. A new album is ready to ship: Edward Ka-Spel "The Painted River of Regrets" LP "Edward’s music for the movie flows with measured, stygian force; the groaning rises punctuated by that old black magic that only Ka-Spel can conjure with the smallest of sounds permeating every wave."
Plus we are now taking pre orders for the following albums from Nadja "Under the Jaguar Sun" 2xCD and DLP (the vinyl version features three mixes by Nadja and one mix by Edward Ka-Spel), Christus & the Cosmonaughts "From Atop This Hill" LP, Andrew Liles "Anal Aura Gram" LP with a bonus 7" of remixes by Steven Severin (Siouxsie & The Banshees), Kasumi Trio "Oh! Gimme You" CD (LSD March & tenniscoats new project), Philippe Petit "Henry: The Iron Man" CD. Plenty of mp3 sound samples to check out.

10% discount for any pre order item until it is released. Use this code: pr10%

Brand new podcast featuring the following albums: Andrew Liles "Anal Aura Gram" LP with a bonus 7" of remixes by Steven Severin (Siouxsie & The Banshees), Kasumi Trio "Oh! Gimme You" CD (LSD March & tenniscoats new project), Philippe Petit "Henry: The Iron Man" BlRR Podcast.

Live dates for BlRR artists including updates for Soriah, CJ Boyd, Volcano the Bear, Troum, Nadja, Aidan Baker, Seven That Spells, LSD March, Legendary Pink Dots, Expo '70 and Andrew Liles.

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Artist: Ka-Spel, Edward
Title: The Painted River Of Regrets
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: LP
Catalog #: mt169
Condition: new
Price: $20.00

Tracklist Samples
1 The Painted River Of Regrets
Description:

Issued as an edition of 500 copies in a full color book bound sleeve with 180 gram vinyl.  3 Decades of sound tracking the secret psychedeli-sphere has found Edward scoring an imaginary film. Edward’s music for the movie flows with measured, stygian force; the groaning rises punctuated by that old black magic that only Ka-Spel can conjure with the smallest of sounds permeating every wave. Loops trill and sigh within virtuoso keyboard cameos. A myriad of miniature minuets thread backwards and beneath the main thematic pulses. Edward’s dark ambience is non-ambivalent, however, which gives it a life’s breath beyond the realm of film music. The album certainly generates excitement as to what images might accompany such a skewed, sonic construction. But no movie is needed to find prophet from these starry sounds.

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Artist: Nadja
Title: Belles Betes
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: LP
Catalog #: mt170
Condition: new
Price: $20.00

Tracklist Samples
1 Sand Like Skin
2 Beautiful Beast
3 Green & Cold
4 Wound Culture

Description:

Edition of 500 copies - Packaged in a heavy book bound LP sleeve on 180 gram vinyl. Warning: not recommended for listening in buildings without earthquake retrofitting: Nadja’s doom-fuzz may crack foundations and/or reduce nearby objects to jelly. However, Nadja, here performing a quartet of solo Aidan Baker covers, maintains a certain melodic balance within the throat-clearing guitar lurches which levitates the heavy, like the most graceful pterodactyl-flying-off-with-a-dead-baby-Icthyasaur you have ever seen. Especially when his voice cuts in, the low-end maraud transforms into a sweet continuo that seems like stoner-metal chewing on 4AD's ear. A grinding thump into the clouds which proves there ARE beautiful uglies.


Artist: Textile Orchestra
Title: For The Boss
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalog #: mt218
Condition: new
Price: $15.00

Tracklist Samples
1 The beginning of the end
2 The end of the beginning

Description:

Available in a custom made full color book bound 8 panel cd case. Featuring Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Alexandre Bellenge, Arnaud Rivière, Dan Warburton in a four car pile up in two movements! Orchestral massacres in the dark. Textile’s percussive grenade bursts like Mani Neumeier threw Han Bennink at Milford Graves. TOR!!! From subtle to superlative, The Textile Orchestra lays concrete like Duchamp fixes plumbing: what remains in the smoldering ruins is pure art. Like a de-horned AACM, this monster snakes around with soft scratching sounds, whirs, squeaks, yells and electronic blurts (when it is not bearing down like the free jazz cavalry). Two long suites read like topographic maps tattooed on the backs of thoroughbreds in full gallop over a cliff (don’t worry, they have wings). A beautiful blur of fearless, precision sound sculpting with the occasional explosion.


Artist: Nurse With Wound/Jim O'Rourke
Title: Angry Eelectric Finger 1
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalog #: mt085b
Condition: new
Price: $16.00

Tracklist Samples
1 AEF 1
2 AEF 1

Description: Repress of the album packaged in a full color gatefold case. Thou had best be ready when the angry electric finger points to YOU! Fortunately, the 3 collaborators above stepped up to the challenged poking, resulting in each offering electric fingers of varying emotional levels ready to fist you in the ear. 

Artist: Ka-Spel, Edward
Title: O'er a shalabast'r tyde strolt ay
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalog #: mt048b
Condition: new
Price: $15.00

Tracklist Samples
1 An Ill Wind
2 O'Riley's Comet
3 Safer Than The Open

Description: Repress of the album packaged in a custom made gatefold case. . A shalabast'r tyde, like unto pantent leather shoes, really doth shyne up. Reflected in the waves are twinkling stars; a smirking harvest moon; herds of passing clouds & hazey pink dots, like legends burned against eyelids after a long stare into an errant brightness.

Artist: Volcano The Bear/La STPO
Title: The Shy Volcanic Society At The Bear And Bird Parade
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalog #: mt222
Condition: new
Price: $16.00

Tracklist Samples
1 Our Number Of Wolves
2 The Boy With The Lips Inside
3 The Open, The Closed
4 Death Sleeps In My Ear
5 The First Circle Is The Eye
6 Guayaki
7 Les Oreilles Internationales
8 Invalid Islands
9 Colonies

Description: CD issued early May 2009 as an edition of 500 copies in a full color gatefold sleeve. A split album with Volcano the Bear and La STPO. VTB tracks 1-5 and STPO tracks 6-9. Bears and Birds, oh my! One side keeps the hot hot. And the other keeps the weird weird.



Artist: Troum
Title: Eald-Ge-Streon/Abhijna
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD/ limited 2xCD
Catalog #: mt183-2CD
Condition: new
Price: $15.00/$20.00

Tracklist Samples
1 ELATION
2 USQUE SUMUS LUX
3 EOLET
4 ECSTATIC FORLORNESS
6 PROCESSION
7 CRESCERE

Description:  Design, layout and artwork by Stephen O'Malley.  Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverbera Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. 

Artist: Kasumi Trio
Title: Oh! Gimme You
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mt221
Status: Preorder
Price: $15.00
To be issued late June 2009 in a full color book bound gatefold sleeve in an edition of 600 copies. A new project featuring members of LSD March and tenniscoats join forces to create an avant-garde-psych-contry-folk album! Folk-psych... (More Info. Here)
 
Artist: Liles, Andrew
Title: Anal Aura Gram
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: LP+7"
Catalogue Number: mt186
Status: in stock
Price: $25.00
An edition of 300 copies on 180 gram blue vinyl and packaged in a custom made book bound sleeve. Available early July 2009 (possibly earlier). “Anal Aura Gram” is a vinyl version of the long deleted CDR that... (More Info. Here)
 
 
Artist: Nadja
Title: Under the Jaguar Sun
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: 2xCD
Catalogue Number: mt175a
Status: Preorder
Price: $20.00
2xCD edition available late June 2009 and packaged in a full color custom made book bound 10 panel sleeve. A double vinyl version, "Chalchiuhtlicue" will also be issued with three mixes by Nadja and one mix by... (More Info. Here)
 
Artist: Nadja
Title: Under the Jaguar Sun
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: 2xLP
Catalogue Number: mt175b
Status: Preorder
Price: $25.00
2xLP edition available late mid July 2009 and packaged in a full color custom made book bound gatefold sleeve with 180 gram vinyl. Note: The vinyl version features three mixes by Nadja and one mix by Edward Ka-Spel using... (More Info. Here)
 
Artist: Petit, Philippe
Title: Henry : The Iron Man
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mt220
Status: Preorder
Price: $16.00
The first 50 pre orders will receive a bonus CD (please read below for details). First ed. of 600 copies in a full color book bound gatefold case available early June 2009. One lost lemonish night sleepwalking on a lost country road I dreamt that... (More Info. Here)